Ali Ryad News Today

Flowery facelift for heart of revolt in Iraqi capital

BAGHDAD: Three years ago, Fadel Abbas marched with tens of thousands of fellow Iraqis chanting for the “fall of the regime” in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, meaning “liberation” in Arabic. The epicenter of the October 2019 anti-government protest movement, the square is now transformed and boasts a renovated park section, and Abbas sells coffee where he once shouted slogans. “Here,